When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

Friends give me a hard time about the pants I'm wearing, which are made in China. Well, how do you find the right clothes? Or the right movie studio? The right people giving you checks? Good luck doing the right thing all the time.

Wal-Mart is the biggest distributor of DVDs out there, but personally, I think their manufacturing policies have destroyed our economy, and they don't pay their employees enough. I have massive problems with them.

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Sequels are desperate.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.

Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.

I'll tell you one thing... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table.

First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

You're not a slave to those test audiences.

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.

I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

I like to remind myself how hard acting is. I do parts in friends' stuff.

For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

There's nothing more fun than mean-spirited characters.

I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.

If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

I think there's a tendency to think geeks and nerds are just sweet guys that were picked on, but that hasn't been my experience. I'm certainly not like that, in a lot of ways.

You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.

You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

I love Paul Rudd.

I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.

My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.

Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece of comedy, or something that relates to something topical.

I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.

I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, 'Dancing with the Stars.' That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.

I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.

'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.